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HADDONFIELD, N.J. (DTN) -- Justin Topp farms in the open sky country of east-central North Dakota. For more than a hundred years, it was rolling grassland that nurtured cattle, wheat and small grain operations, before the corn and soybean invasion a decade ago. In this decade, it could be reshaped by North America's 21st century fertilizer revolution.

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